I love this move because me and keykid literally discovered every property it has ^_^ ahhhhhh!
First of all, the move doesn't have super armor; it has grab priority, which means this move destroys a lot of downward moving attacks. We did testing on it a LONNNNG time ago, but IIRC, Falcon Dive beats out toon links dair, Lucario's dair, DDD's Up B, Ganondorf's Dair (yea. I know), DK's dair, Fox's Dair, Falco's Dair, and definitely a few others that I'm forgetting. It's in the thread I made a long time ago. Take note though, you need to launch falcon dive towards the front of all of these hitboxes, so falcon's face hits the opponent. Doing otherwise and going straight up into the bottom of all of these attacks will just cause you to get hit. Done properly, you'll take the damage, but absorb the move and land Falcon Dive...which does a nice 17-18 percent or so unstale. IIRC...lol.
This move is awesome as a ledgehopped move. I know everyone loves Ledgehopping Up air and Fair, and with good reason: Upair give you breathing room and the ledgehopped Fair can get you an Early KO. However, if either of these are shielded you'll get punished.
Falcon Dive goes through shields, and
has at least twice as much range as fair and up air as a ledgehopped move. This move can also be shield canceled, and with tap jump set to ON, can be used out of a dash easy, giving falcon a dash grab esqeu second option when you want to mix it up.
This move also puts your opponent in bad situations at certain points in a match: Use an aerial to bait an air dodge, punish their air dodge with Falcon Dive. It's pretty simple: They either eat the aerial or eat the up B, their choice I guess. lol.
The stage spike is also nice for recovering
......and lastly, this move is
pretty safe to use, considering you get a
ridiculous amount of Directional Influence out of Falcon Dive.
K.
Done ranting about my old. old. old.
old.
old find.
xD
Good, underrated move, but not nearly as amazing as I thought upon my initial "discovery" of it's offensive prowess.
Oh well.
lol.